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"I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one."
"It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then."
"Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence."
"When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!"
"There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer."
"When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams."
"It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song."
"I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."
"Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun."
"George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money."
"the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less"
"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know."
"I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute."
"Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff."
"My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread."
"Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all."
"None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back."
"I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course."
"Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard."
"By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself."